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Record About the middle of July I made a trip down the Green River a part of the way with Mr. F. L. Salue, Manager of the Yuma Project. Right after that I sent a drill outfit down. I had boats built at Greenriver on my plan and sent them down and I made a number of trips down there, two or three. I was down there at the time the material was loaded. I built two drill scows and the drills were loaded on the scows at Wimmer's ranch at the mouth of 3691 the San Rafael. The boats were built so that they would not draw more than 15 inches of water. The outfit was sent on down the river under Mr. Sawyer's charge. After the drill outfit was installed at the junction of 3692 the two rivers I visited it from time to time. From the several trips I made on the Green River between Greenriver, Utah, and the junction, I found the channel was a shifting, unstable river channel. It is very deep to bed rock. It is fine sand. the river was subject to rises at the junction of 40 or 50 feet. When they would come the river bottom would scour and the velocities would be very great. By the shifting of the channel I mean that with 3693 any change in the discharge of the river sand bars would form on one side and then wash out on the other side. The fact of there 3694 being sand bars did not constitute any danger to the drilling. I suppose the gradient there was about a foot and a half to the mile. I was not there when the drilling outfit was washed away. Mr. Sawyer sent me a telegram about his loss of the drill and the stuff. After I received that telegram I ordered him to move out. I was not present when it was moved out. My recollection is I saw 3695 the drill outfit at Wimmer's ranch. During that summer, after the drill outfit had been moved down to the junction, I made a trip from Moab, Utah, down to the junction in a 16 foot launch, drawing about 15 inches of water. That stretch of the Colorado was essen-tially like the Green. The current was a little swifter. I have 3696 a very vivid recollection of a place called the Slide. We went through it under power. It seems to me we had difficulty with sand